Technology Interns, Office of Innovation

Description

Two volunteer interns are needed in the Office of Innovation, located in College Park, MD to work approximately 8-12 hours per week. Virtual interns are welcome to work from any location.

Interns are encouraged to work with their educational institutions to obtain course credit for this unpaid internship.

Responsibilities: Tasks the selected candidate will be expected to perform may include, but may not be limited to, the following:

• Work to design, develop, test, integrate, support, and document user-facing applications and back-end systems.
• Support the philosophy of open source, shared, and community-built tools, scripts, and technologies.
• Support content management policies, process, and workflows, and contribute to the development of new ones.
• Demonstrate knowledge of, and experience with, web application and software development and data modeling.
• Perform other related duties and participate in special projects as assigned.

Requirements

• Experience working in the context of a software development methodology.
• Experience with standard software and web application development tools and programming languages and technologies, including JavaScript, Python, JSON, and Ruby on Rails.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team environment and the ability to interact well with stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Semantic Web and linked data concepts and technologies.
• Knowledge of library practices and data formats, including XML, OAI-PMH, MODS, MARC, and Dublin Core.
• Ability to administer PHP/MySQL applications such as WordPress and Omeka.
• Considerable knowledge of the methods and tools used in electronic data processing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.

Preferred

• Demonstrated desire to learn new toolsets and programming languages
• Working knowledge of version control systems

Only email applications will be considered. Please email documents to the attention of Dannielle Blumenthal at dannielle.blumenthal@nara.gov.